Jason Baluyut
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Scenes from Harold Ickes Playground in Red Hook, Brooklyn. Named for the guy who implemented much of FDR’s New Deal, it’s a skate park with a sculpted climbing rock nearby that looks like a howling dog from certain angles. The building behind it is actually one of the four giant ventilator shafts that keep fresh air moving through the Brooklyn-Battery Tunnel.

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A shirtless skater with a gray helmet, shorts, and knee pads executes a midair move in the skate park, behind a chain link fence and a park bench next to some greenery. The scene is framed by the “legs” of the rocklike climbing sculpture in the foreground, so that we view the skater as if from the entrance of a cave.
A shirtless skater with a gray helmet, shorts, and knee pads executes a midair move in the skate park, behind a chain link fence and a park bench next to some greenery. The scene is framed by the “legs” of the rocklike climbing sculpture in the foreground, so that we view the skater as if from the entrance of a cave.
A shirtless skater with a gray helmet, shorts, and knee pads executes a midair move in the skate park, behind a chain link fence and a park bench next to some greenery. The scene is framed by the “legs” of the rocklike climbing sculpture in the foreground, so that we view the skater as if from the entrance of a cave.
A red brick building with rounded corners rises into a blue sky with clouds. It has no windows, but one of its visible sides displays narrow vertical vents with horizontal slats. In front of the building is a faux stone sculpture that serves as a climbing structure in a playground. The foreground is occupied by a pavement of large square tiles, with a curving path at left that leads to a skating area out of frame.
A red brick building with rounded corners rises into a blue sky with clouds. It has no windows, but one of its visible sides displays narrow vertical vents with horizontal slats. In front of the building is a faux stone sculpture that serves as a climbing structure in a playground. The foreground is occupied by a pavement of large square tiles, with a curving path at left that leads to a skating area out of frame.
A red brick building with rounded corners rises into a blue sky with clouds. It has no windows, but one of its visible sides displays narrow vertical vents with horizontal slats. In front of the building is a faux stone sculpture that serves as a climbing structure in a playground. The foreground is occupied by a pavement of large square tiles, with a curving path at left that leads to a skating area out of frame.